News

Palantir Has a Hand in NIH’s Most Ambitious Health Initiative

By Julia Métraux, Mother Jones [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 07.07.2026

During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

U.S. Federal

The Measured Listener

By Daniel Shanahan, Los Angeles Review of Books | 05.31.2026

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

U.S. States

These companies help parents try to pick their babies' traits. Experts are wary

By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.06.2026

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

Genetic Selection

The start-ups dreaming of creating genetically modified babies

By Alexandre Piquard, Le Monde [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 05.22.2026

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

U.S. Federal

U.S. Fertility Care: Ignoring Minorities?

By Jim Hawkins, The Huffington Post | 12.01.2012
People who study the fertility business have been concerned for years over the fact that racial minorities utilize fertility treatments...
Reproductive Justice, Health & Rights

U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Human Genes Patentable

By Jonathan Stempel, Reuters | 11.30.2012
Nov 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether human genes can be patented, a...
Bioethics

Surgery that Puts Menopause on Hold

By Julia Medew, The Sydney Morning Herald | 11.30.2012
OVARIAN tissue transplants could be used like egg-freezing to preserve a woman's fertility into her 40s and 50s but IVF...
Other Countries

Professors Critique Stem Cell Medical Tourism

By Steven S. Lee, The Harvard Crimson | 11.29.2012
A panel at the Harvard Law School Wednesday discussed the ethical debate over the use of embryonic stem cells in...
Bioethics

Of Monsters and Men

By George Estreich, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.29.2012

To be interested in questions of human enhancement, while also being a sucker for Hollywood blockbusters about superheroes, makes for...

Technologies

Myriad Updates: Clinical Data as Trade Secrets and a Pending Certiorari Decision

By Dan Vorhaus, Genomics Law Report | 11.28.2012
Earlier this month, my colleagues John Conley, Robert Cook-Deegan, James Evans and I published a policy article in the European...
Genomics

Doctors Guilty in Stem Cell Fraud Case

By Nathan Baca, KLAS-TV Las Vegas | 11.28.2012
LAS VEGAS -- Dr. Ralph Conti and Alfred Sapse were found guilty on all counts in federal court Wednesday of...
Biotech & Pharma

Selecting Against Disease

By Urmila Ramakrishnan, Fin Magazine | 11.26.2012
Although we may not have control over the end of the world, genetic counseling and selection will give us power...
Genomics